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4th June 2005, 10:52 PM #1
My latest box
This box started life as a thought about storage from some small articles in the shed. Then I decided it was too good for that. Then my daughter said she could use a box, so I gave it to her, and she decorated the lid with sea-shells. It worked out really well: the plywood on top looks like a bed of sand beneath the shells. Sides are 'durian' from Bunnings (what is that species anyway?), with jarrah mitre keys.
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5th June 2005, 08:44 AM #2
The shells are a little different, not my taste but the box itself is nice!
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5th June 2005, 08:57 AM #3
Like the box and like the shells, I am sure your daughter enjoyed being part of the process and takes pride in her contribution. Its starts like this that empower them.
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Pete
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5th June 2005, 10:01 PM #4Returning Member
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Originally Posted by zenwood
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6th June 2005, 12:43 PM #5
durian ?
I had the impression it was a generic brand for a variety of timbers (including meranti?) Ahh, so much to know, so little time. A stinking, heavenly-tasting fruit sounds interesting.
Originally Posted by QldWoodieThose are my principles, and if you don't like them . . . well, I have others.
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6th June 2005, 01:15 PM #6Returning Member
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Originally Posted by zenwood
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11th June 2005, 06:08 PM #7
I do know of a fruit like that they call Jack Fruit or surprise surprise Durian.
I could never work our why this timber that looked like Meranti was being sold as Durian but there you go.
Jack Fruit is real fun there are signs I have heard in various places like buses that say you can't come in here if you have been eating jack fruit. It is a pungent rich sort of variation of your typical tropical fruit smell.
Back to the subject that matters I think the box is great and I think it is great too that your daughter put sea shells all over the lid. It's her box after all
Stevo
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17th June 2005, 09:59 AM #8Novice
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love the box mate but that fruit sounds a bit like paw paw fruit
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17th June 2005, 11:43 AM #9
Love the box, Zenwood! I thought the plywood WAS sand-covered (without enlarging the pic!) Nice you let her personalize it! Nice jointing, btw
Durian - it smells a bit like rotten onions when ripe - I've seen it plenty at Ag. shows in tropical fruit displays/tastings but didn't get up the courage to try it. It is HUGE - like a knobbly, slightly flattened football, though often bigger.
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Jill
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17th June 2005, 03:24 PM #10Member
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Love the box zenwood, especially the contrast with the jarrah. While trekking through Sumatra we encountered durian everywhere - you could smell the stuff a mile off. Because I was young and foolish I ate it, only to discover it did taste as bad as it smelt :eek: . I reckon it's the fruit equivalent of carp - mushy and foul-tasting. Good to see at least the wood is useful, if not the fruit .
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